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GAME ANIMALS
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Upland Birds and Waterfowl
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.jpg) | | Alberta Waterfowl & Canadian Characters | | Edmonton, Alberta has long been renowned as a duck and goose hunter’s paradise. For those of us raised in the states, too often familiar with playing the waiting game in small farm fields, marshes and flooded timber; the stark difference just in the number of birds seen makes this Canadian trip a rare experience indeed. |  |
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| | | |  | | Late Great Goldeneyes | | Goldeneyes (also known as whistlers, for the whistling sound their primaries make as they rocket overhead) are sporting enough for just about anybody. | |
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| | | |  | | Stealth Pheasants | | Respect the ringneck’s big game-quality defenses with a low-impact approach that really puts roosters in the game bag. | |
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| |  | | Drive-By Grouse | | I smiled as the rocketing ruffed grouse dipped and made its signature hook to the right before disappearing into the mystery of the northern Minnesota buck brush, knowing it would touch down less than 100 yards away. | |
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| |  | | Stop Those Running Roosters | | To outmaneuver runaway ringnecks and force them to flush, you need a sound strategic plan, which should be fully developed long before your boots hit the ground. | |
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| |  | | A Do-It Yourselfer’s Guide To Pheasant Hunting | | Come every October, like clockwork, I find myself in the same, shameful routine. I dig into a beat-up, plastic bin that’s been hiding on a dark shelf somewhere, stuffed with all the pheasant gear I dropped in exactly ten minutes after I ended my last hunt of last season. | |
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| |  | | Winning the Ringneck Race | | Renewing old friendships, tailgate lunches and hearty wisecracks about missed shots of yesteryear are a big part of opening day. That wasn’t the case during my youth. | |
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| |  | | On the Wings of a Prairie Wind | | Gordy Krahn's story of Arkansas's tradition of bountiful waterfowl hunting. During the migrations, the flats of Arkansas's Grand Prairie compose the world's greatest concentration of waterfowl. | |
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 | | 2007 Duck Numbers | | The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says waterfowl numbers are up 14 percent from last year. But is that cause for celebration, or caution? Jim Spencer gives you the inside scoop on what the numbers mean. | |
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| | | |  | | A Celebration of Woodcock | | "It is at once the most enchanting and antagonizing little game bird I've had the pleasure to hunt, this American woodcock." | |
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| | | | A Do-It Yourselfer’s Guide To Pheasant Hunting | | Come every October, like clockwork, I find myself in the same, shameful routine. I dig into a beat-up, plastic bin that’s been hiding on a dark shelf somewhere, stuffed with all the pheasant gear I dropped in exactly ten minutes after I ended my last hunt of last season. | |
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| | | | Alberta Waterfowl & Canadian Characters | | Edmonton, Alberta has long been renowned as a duck and goose hunter’s paradise. For those of us raised in the states, too often familiar with playing the waiting game in small farm fields, marshes and flooded timber; the stark difference just in the number of birds seen makes this Canadian trip a rare experience indeed. | |
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| | | | | |  | | Christmas Grouse | | North American Hunter Editor Gordy Krahn and his brother relish the beauty of a winter morning - and a happy Brittany - during a late season grouse hunt. | |
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| |  | | Dirt-Cheap Ducks | | Hunting waterfowl on public land might be better—much better—than you ever imagined. | |
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| |  | | Doves: Fun Shooting, Social Tradition | | For all-out fun, sporting camaraderie at its best and wing shooting at its most challenging, it's hard to beat a traditional mourning dove shoot of the "popcorn popper" sort. | |
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